Panonica Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 84-4266823. Reported 104 grants totalling $6,536,450 to 58 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Panonica Foundation, the IRS classifies it under civil rights rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE R63) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $410,400. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Reports Inc | Yonkers, NY | $555,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pro Publica Inc | New York, NY | $473,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| William J Brennan JR Center for Justice Inc | New York, NY | $460,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Public Religion Research Institute | Washington, DC | $450,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $448,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Senate Majority Pac | Washington, DC | $420,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| House Majority Pac | Washington, DC | $410,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Consumer Law Center Inc | Boston, MA | $331,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Las Vegas, NV | $250,600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Center for Investigative Reporting | San Francisco, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Investigative Reporting | Emeryville, CA | $243,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Innocence Project Inc | New York, NY | $236,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press | Washington, DC | $230,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc | Austin, TX | $229,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Committee to Protect Journalists Inc | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Public Radio Inc | Washington, DC | $145,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Constitutional Rights Inc | New York, NY | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Music Maker Foundation Inc | Hillsborough, NC | $75,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | New York, NY | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| N a a C P Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc | New York, NY | $61,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Groundtruth Project Inc | Boston, MA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pen American Center Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southern Nevada Public Television | Las Vegas, NV | $47,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | Montgomery, AL | $41,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Innocence Project of Texas | Fort Worth, TX | $40,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Americans United for Separation of Church and State Inc | Washington, DC | $35,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $35,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Campaign Legal Center Inc | Washington, DC | $32,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation | Austin, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Texas Public Radio | San Antonio, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Americans for Democratic Action Education | Washington, DC | $25,750 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Electronic Privacy Information Center | Washington, DC | $25,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Media Matters for America | Washington, DC | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Free Speech for People Inc | Austin, TX | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Japanese American National Museum | Los Angeles, CA | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nevada Public Radio | Las Vegas, NV | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wikimedia Foundation Org | San Francisco, CA | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Opensecrets | Washington, DC | $20,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Texas Tribune Inc | Austin, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Orange Scholarship Fund | West Orange, NJ | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Day Laborer Organizingnetwork | Pasadena, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Sentencing Project | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Georgia Project Incorporated | Atlanta, GA | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charity Navigator | Union City, NJ | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nevada News Bureau Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | San Francisco, CA | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Equal Justice Initiative | Montgomery, AL | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| East-West Players Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Partnership for New Americans Inc | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| One Georgia Inc | Atlanta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Press Forward | Egg Hbr Twp, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The U C Davis Foundation | Davis, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vote Org | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kcrw Foundation Inc | Santa Monica, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | Los Angeles, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
31 of 58 (53%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- House Majority Pac
to elect Democratic Representatives - Senate Majority Pac
to elect Democratic Senators - William J Brennan JR Center for Justice
to improve American democracy and justice - Pro Publica Inc
promote informed citizenry and responsible journalism - American Civil Liberties Union
support civil rights and liberties and social and economic justice - Center for Investigative Reporting
support independent investigative journalism
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 47 of 58 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | $641,350 | $10,500 |
| 2022 | 30 | $1,870,000 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 4 | $50,000 | $11,500 |
| 2024 | 48 | $3,975,100 | $25,150 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
41% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Panonica Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 46 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1350 Brdway Flr 12 C/O Guy Molinari, New York, NY, 10018.
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